FreeNAS Aware

Microsoft decided quite some time ago to relegate UNIX boxes to second class citizens when it comes to having a place in Network Neighborhood (NN). When this decision is combined with a cat's cradle of protocols whizzing across the network (NetBIOS, WINS, SMB1/2/3) it became virtually impossible to untangle a means of getting said boxes to reappear in NN.

This resource provides a means to make that happen. In full disclosure I am "standing on the shoulders of giants" with this solution. The...

FreeNAS Experienced

This largely duplicates an existing resource I wrote a while back. Other perspectives aren't necessarily a bad thing and writing resources is always worth kudos, so that's not a problem, but the other resource has a lot of related in-depth material and background explanation/how-to that might also be quite useful, so it's probably worth cross-linking more explicitly than just the inline link.

For avoidance of doubt - thank you for adding this clear recipe that anyone can follow.

FreeNAS Aware

Thanks for the entry @Stilez. I remember being truly excited to have found your original post.

I run a development network with Unix NAS's and machines thoroughly mixed up with windows clients and both a windows server and unix based production environment. After Microsoft mangled networkwork neighborhood I really missed my neat and tidy NN and your work allowed me to get that back.

It was one of those things which just HAD to be shared with everyone which prompted me to write-up my own experience in the hope it would be useful to everyone.

Full kudos to you though - as I said, I was only standing on the "shoulders of giants"